Newcastle Reported Interest In Stoke’s David Whelan

News from Sky Sports this evening that Newcastle may be interested in Stoke City play-maker Glenn Whelan.

Glenn Whelan – while playing for Ireland
Other clubs said to be interested in the player are Wigan and West Bromwich Albion, but this is a surprising player for Newcastle to be linked with.

Newcastle do need more creativity in midfield, especially in central midfield, but we wonder if Glenn is good enough to be a first-teamer at Newcastle – we doubt it.

The 26 year-old Dublin-born midfielder started his career at Manchester City in 2001, but moved on to play for Sheffield Wednesday in 2004 after playing just once for City and 15 times on loan at Bury.

Glenn was in the side that won promotion to the Championship in May of 2005, and then in January of 2008 he joined Stoke City for a low £500K.

The 5’10” tall player played 159 times with 17 goals for Sheffield Wednesday, and has so far played 100 times with 6 goals for Stoke City.

We’d be very surprised if Glenn Whelan ended up at Newcastle United, but if he does he would simply be a squad player in the attacking central midfield positions.

Newcastle have little cover for Nolan and Barton in that area of the field, with Danny Guthrie not seemingly coming through much on Tyneside this season.

In total Glenn Whelan has 275 first class appearances in his career with 23 goals.

And in addition he has played 26 times for Ireland with a couple of goals.

No thanks. He would be wasting his time as well as the supporters and the clubs time coming here. He would not get a game and he would spend 99% of his time on the bench. He is best off where he is. Come on Pardew you can do better then this. You are managing NUFC not some second rate 1st division club.

I don’t think Whelan is a bad little player, but I don’t see where he could fit into our plans. Seems a strange choice of rumour to start at best. I think we already have better back up on the books, and he certainly wouldn’t make Barton & Nolan frightened for their squad numbers.

Matias Fernandez (Sorry lads I just can’t stop thinking about him lol)
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Adam Johnson
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Stephane sessegnon
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Emmanuel Adebayor (On a clause that if his behaviour is any less than exemplary, they send newcastles hardest fan to kick shit outa him)
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Carlos Vela
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Seydou Dombia!

fook david whelan and seb larsson and bentley..Dont think any of those players could do anytin for us..Think pardrew has got this transfer market all wrong…..Well thats what i think…if i had to pick a team i would pick 11 tiote’s

KevyMartins – If we had 11 Tiotes… We would never score because he can’t shoot for shit lol!! I’d probs have 2 Andy Carrols… 4 Benny Arfas…. 4 Tiotes and Yeah so on then Harper you can keep your spot in goal 😀

No Idea where the Whelan story has come from, as there is no information about this anywhere else. As for Larsson, would I take him over Bentley? Better temperament but not sure about other positives after that. It does look like we will get him with SSN saysing Bentley is due to have his medical over the weekend. If I could pick one signing it would have to be Keane. With a best starting eleven of:

kevy….judging by some of the players you chose yesterday to come in, you are in la la land.

seb larrson would DEFINITELY improve our squad. no one can make an assessment on Bentley as no one’s seen him play lately. Whelan? Of course not, but c’mon. We are not going to get any of the players you mentioned. Even if Seb is used as a sub, he’d be replacing a mediocre player on the bench. Subtle, realistic improvement, mate. We are in EIGHTH for f***sake! How can you be anything other than ecstatic with that?!?!?!

kevymartins @ 29. Scott Parker wanted to leave as he was homesick for the big smoke. Unlikely he would want to come back here. Not a bad player, but I think we have established that we are covered in the centre of midfield.

mattyNUFC @ 34, apparently Saviola has hardly scored 7 times this season! I did hear that AP does indeed fancy his chances of signing Saviola, very much in the same way as I fancy my chances of getting stuck up Beyonce tonight!

yeah, so tell me, right now Fergy is better than Seb…are you mad? jonas needs to play on the left, Routledge, as someone mentioned yesterday, should have a shot at the free-role behind the striker and/or used as an impact sub as his shot/speed/skill is wasted with his lack of crossing ability out wide. Ben arfa, as told by Pardew, will have that free role when he gets back, and can of course play on the left. Jonas and Seb battling it out for the right. tell me what exactly is wrong with that??

look when chris was here he brought in tiote an ben arfa two farn players an there amazing member are old team laurent robert…im just saying sometimes its better to go abroad than sign players from england

Adel Taarabt as I’ve been calling for him for sometime. I don’t think anyone would argue that as he can play in a CAM role or out wide on the left

Mohommed Diame – great holding midfielder. would probably want to start all the time but I wouldn’t be surprised if some big teams try to pluck Tiote in the summer and I really like how disciplined Diame is. Just plays in a crap team.

Larrson wouldn’t be my first choice for an out and out winger but not bad by any means.

Scott Sinclair from swansea. Young, hungary, impressive speed and a work-rate only second to most of the players in our team and I think he would work well with AC.

Should’ve gotten Gylfi last year when we had the chance :/ . He’s tearing up the Bundesliga with Hoffenheim right now!

No to Sears, no to Whelan, no to Bentley, no to Keane. Kranjcar would be nice but i can’t see that happening.

So yes, were it me, I would feel confident in our strike options especially if we brought in Sinclair. My shortlist would be (assuming we wouldn’t get everyone)

Diame
Taarabt
Sinclair
Hammill
Larrson
Maynard
Gradel

what do you guys think? not sure about LB or RB cover but have been very impressed with Simpson this year

mattyNUFC @ 39. I was being sarcastic mate. No I don’t think he would improve us now. 5 years ago on the other hand? I don’t think we are even looking at forwards at the minute. Frankly, I still feel wingers and full backs should be our priority.

just rumours the usual..the only people who really know who we’re interested in are pardew, llambias, ashley and the clubs they’re making enquiries too.
hopefully we will be surprised like in the summer with tiote and ben arfa

So in summary……We’ve signed up Arfa and got S Taylor tied down, looks like smith is going back to leeds, ‘Arry has finally dropped his interest in Carroll, Tozer is staying at Northampton and we’re loaning a few of the younger young’uns out – and we MAY be landing Larsson.

Hopefully none of the players mentioned will be brought in.
Then the club will post on the official site the signing of a surprise quality player, we can all stop speculating wildly and get back to actual football?

Jay Bothroyd is a player who I don’t really rate too highly, however, I remember watching him make his debut for Coventry City some years ago, against Monkey Heeds mackems, and he single handedly tore them a new backside. If we could borrow him for the game against the mackems next week, I reckon I would go for it.

@colwell Yeah Gio would be a nice Loan deal tbh if we were truly interested in Adel than Gio is same type of Playmaker and would be easy to get loan and maybe view to buy?

I still think we need a striker tbh someone cheap ish below 2 Mill i mean someone like Charlie Adam who may be NUFC fan his hero growning up with Shearer so mite be and he would work ALOT for the cause which we want we dont want another Ameobi type of “Lets no run” attitude.

On the Whelan i would think we would of moved for Jamie O Hara on loan before buying Glenn,Jamie is alot better than him and would be sold or loaned, he works hard and is a good player nothing special but does a job.

Heard alot of news from Leeds ppl we are trading Alan Smith for Max Gradel, would be a good deal if we can do that!

“I spoke to (Newcastle boss) Alan Pardew when we played them and he’s got no intention of selling him in this window or selling him at all he said, so that’s a no-goer,” said the Spurs boss, who was linked with a £20million bid for the England striker.

7th Jan

“I have never discussed it with Alan Pardew,” he said.

I hate him i always do, he puts on his front to the media, but everyone knows what hes like. I’m sure hes tried some dirty underhand way at getting to him as he always does.

My god some people on here are idiots. How is Pardew signing poor players as some have stated. Is HBA poor, is Larsson (likely) poor and from what i’ve heard, gradel. No, the fact is larsson will add some decent competition for jonas cos atm he only has routledge to compete with. At least he can cross and remember, we are lucky to be in 8th. On other days we could easily be in the relegation zone. Have some faith in our manager and trust he has the brains to pick out quality unlike CH. Pretty sure that tiote and HBA were Carr’s ideas.

yo i was just wondering does anyone know who wore the number 5 jersey when we played a friendly at bray wanders a few years back. i wud have thought it was emre but i dont think he was playing cheers 🙂

I’ve seen some things about Jefferson Farfan being linked with us, he has refused to talk to Magarth (Schalke) Manager and will leave in January he is a quick winger and scores as well, may be worth look at him depending on price of course.

pardew said today we were in talks with a club today n hoped to push a deal through tomorro or over wkend be interesting to see if taarabt n larrson are in qprs n birminghams sqauds tomorro n b if smith is in ours coz defo think a swap deal for gradel could happen grayson has admitted he wud love smith at leeds today

Rknuc- it was aldos duecher, had on trial but fat sam didn’t sign him.

As for larrson I’m praying to hod we sign him, he is quality, unbelievable range of passing.

Davy- no chance of signing taarabt.

Iv heard alot all day about who we are signing and who we are not, I can pretty much guarantee it’s seb!! Pards said in his interveiw yesterday that he is a player with the ability of bentley and a great crossed/passer of the ball.

Errr the reason we have a scouting network is to find players, managers job is to sell the club to players scouts have found
Get a grip you lot, no managers including fergie, wenger etc do the groundwork ….. Kinel you lot need to get a grip sometimes – ultimately scouts find em and managers just confirm hopefully ensuring they’ll fit into the squad, then they need to convince chairman ton part with cash which in toon works is difficult – I loved Hughton but he even said himself that signings were brought to his attention

Would prefer Seb over Elia as he Larsson is proven in the EPL but Elia could be risky. Look at Liverpool. their fancy foreign signings aren’t looking so good now. ATM we need players withing proven Premier League experience and then when we are strong enough for europe (hopefully soon) then we should invest in foreign talent. But for now, lets get in some experience and develop our homegrown youth

With a fit 11 by the end of the month with longer rest periods, the fact we’re getting less cards, the impending fitness of Arfa and Gosling, the hopeful ascension of Best, and our team spirit, there’s no reason we can’t compete for Europe next season. Heck, we could do it this season.

stevep, all I’m saying is we don’t want to many long term contracts. As rknufc says if we beat the scum and as RossGellar says, we are improving all the time. I don’t see why we can’t contend for a place in Europe and for that loans would be better than long term contracts, so we can strengthen for next season in summer. You’re right survival is our first priority but why not go for all we can?

i wonder if the only player we had lined up was bentley. i may be looking for excuses but the fact that pardew said we were only after players who would fight for a place hours before news broke of bentley going to brum.

just a suggestion but maybe they have guaranteed him first team football.

prefer our stance to be honest if thats the case and as its been pointed out may allow us to sign seb. although i do think it could drag on all transfer window if brum think they have a chance of renewing his contract unless he says he will defo not sign.

David Bentley has completed his loan move to Birmingham City,While Birmingham City have accepted a Bid from Newcastle United for Seb Larsson reportedly for 1.5 Million. Mr.Pardew is hopefully about the deal will be done before the Sevenage game.If the deal is done,Seb Larsson will not be cleared for the Sevenage game and If to wait for his debut against Sunderland next week.

Why feel sorry for Seb Larsson joining us,Hes a canny player for canny price !.Snap him up,Without Tiote out,We can push Joey Barton in the middle then have Seb Larsson on the Right.
If we Sign him,No Chance of seeing Wayne Routledge again this season.

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